I am back peoples! I am back with my third first impressions post, and I have watched several more of the new spring shows. I won't be blogging about all of them, but I'll try and see about a couple more first impressions and then start on episodics. In fact, this was quite a pain to get all the screenshots for this post since we had a forty minute (ish) episode! Deliciousness for watching, but pain in the butt for screencapping. But without further ado here we go with Kami-Sama no Memo-chou (The Memo pad of the Gods)! Warning post will be little long due to length of episode hahahahahahahaha!

So we start in with some pretty scenery, some text conversation, and a flash of eyes. We jump into the OP and we enjoy it. I enjoyed the OP here, and it gave me the Durarara feel, as some will feel throughout the whole episode.

It's not like NEETs have anything else to do

So we meet our protagonist, our main chara, Narumi, who is giving us a Mikado-esque monologue about being a single dot, but if the dots are put together, it makes a picture.

Even this screencap is made of nothing but little dots

We then flash to a middle-aged pedo bear and a girl engaging in some prostitution activities, only to be stopped by supposedly the girl's boyfriend taking a picture. Back over to Narumi, who's ended up in the hotel district. He thinks he's in the wrong place, when suddenly a half-naked girl comes flying out a window!

Girls falling from the sky? Thank you!

Before Narumi can help out, he gets a a gun to his back and slammed into the wall by a little kid in goggles and hardhat. Another random guy comes holding the aformentioned boyfriend who is bleeding, and another random guy (man where do they pop up) comes to cover up the girl, and teasing Narumi by telling him he has no presence. Then they all drive away.

"Let's all shun this weird kid in the brown coat"

After this Narumi enters school, and tries to fit in. When he hides out on the school rooftop, his classmate, Shinozaki Ayaka, who despairs at how Narumi doesn't know her even though they're in the same class. She harasses the Narumi about their class ID, and then asks for a favor. We flash over to Narumi and Ayaka watering flowers with Narumi now a part of the gardening club. We learn that Ayaka is very convincing (or pushy) in getting Narumi to join.

"You know, if you had Harvest Moon, you could do this at home"

You are soooooo not Haruhi

We then head to Narumi's home life with his sister. Seems Narumi's got some daddy issues with the not present father. The next day, Ayaka brings Narumi along with her to Hanamaru ramen shop (famous for its...ice cream?). There Narumi meets two of the random people (Military and redshirt) he saw the other day. He also meets Min, ze hot owner of Hanamaru. We then learn that Tetsu (Red shirt) and Mukai also known as Major (military dude) are NEETS. Tetsu is a gambler and Major (who is not technically a NEET) is a university student just wasting his days at the University so he has access to the library's resources to fuel his interests. We then meet Hiro who is supposedly a gigolo.

"Don't you wish you were us?"

All three then get a mysterious call from a person with the name of Alice. They get a special kind of ramen from Min-san. They then have a contest to see who'll take it to Alice, and Narumi (who didn't even know he was playing) loses and thus has to go up.

"Stop staring at me you pedo-bears."

Alice is a hikikomori who feels that many troubles in the world are due to her inadequacy. Thus, she carries out one of the two professions that can help the dead, a detective. Not only any detective though, a NEET detective, who does all the work without even stepping out of the room.

Alice then tells Narumi to bring up the three clowns downstairs. They figure out that the girl and boy from the very beginning were playing their prostitution con in order to find a girl named Shouko. Alice assigns everyone a job, and Narumi gets the job of talking to the prostitute girl who happens to go to his school. The following day, Narumi makes no progress. He then goes to visits Alice who is crying over her bear's torn ear.

Loli plus a bear...um...well...

Hiro takes Narumi and bear to meet the Fourth (Hokage? lol jk) who is supposedly a master of needlework. Turns out he's not just a random toy doctor, but also the boss of a group and the one who asked for the investigation on the prostitution con.

That collar is actually a weapon

After the visit, Narumi finally talks to the girl at his school. The girl is looking for her missing senpai Shouko who she greatly admired. Apparently, the guy is actually Shouko's boyfriend and they just teamed up to find her. Turns out Shouko didn't like all the admiration and high expectations for her. She gets angry when her kouhai tells her how amazing she is.

"I don't swing that way so stop trying to sweet talk me."

We also see flashes of Shouko's time with the guy. Turns out she's actually the prostitute, not her kouhai. She disappeared during her time in prostitution. She seems to really enjoy his company and wishes that their time together would just freeze.

Lap pillow. Lucky idiot.

Narumi reports all he's learned to Alice who seems to have figured stuff out. And especially with some information (blotted out by a noise of a train) from Major who's stalking the guy, Alice knows it all. Alice then tells everyone to get ready while she gets dressed.

Hikikomori. Hikikomori Loli. Gothic Loli. She went from unexpected to cliche. She's still cool, though.

Alice goes to explain to the girl about why her senpai became a prostitute. The high expectations were too much. She also wonders out loud why the boyfriend helped the girl since he knew exactly where Shouko was. The girl tackles Alice and begs for the location of her senpai.

Don't touch me there. That's my no-no square.

We then go to a news flash of how a dead girl's body was found in a young man's appartment. Apparent cause of death was due to suicide due to the wrist cuts. Turns out her boyfriend had been preserving her with ice (as Major had supposedly said he was buying, but that stupid train blotted out).

"Did you enjoy your first NEET adventure?"

Afterwards, Narumi and Alice ponder about the case. They think that Shouko somehow brought the two together in a strange way. Ayaka then barges in, saying that Alice hadn't had a bath in two days. Ignoring the fact that Narumi is still in the room, she starts stripping Alice. They then notice the frozen Narumi before Alice gets naked.

UH...

TO THE FACE!

Alice kicks him out, scolding him in believing he could be her assistant. Narumi is then first by Min to deliver ramen, to which the guys tell him makes him as he fails as a NEET. Narumi, however, feels happy now. Ending his previous monologue by saying when multiple dots are put together, an image is formed.

Sky shot. A hopeful image put together by millions of dots put together.

Opinion: So I didn't have major love for this right away. Of course, that's how I felt about Durarara at first, but then I came to majorly love it. I enjoyed the first epi a lot, and I am extremely eager for more. I'm seeing Mikado in Narumi, and I can't wait to see what he does. Alice is also way epic, but she should just stay in her hikikomori outfit and out of the gothic lolita stuff. Also, love the NEET guys, especially Major! I can't wait to see how this pans out. I can't promise you guys episodics if every episode is an hour long like this one. Much as I enjoyed this show it was a massive pain in the a** to screencap forty minutes of stuff, and I didn't even use that many of them. I totally recommend, and we should all watch together. What'd you guys think?Preview:

A new case and probably the start of Narumi being Alice's assistant! Can't wait.

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